Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42,724, Henry Fitzgerald, Penn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn.
Fitzgerald Henry or Fitzgarald
S. 42,724
CONTENTS

6,515 Ohio.
Henry Fitzgerald
of Fairfield in the state of Ohio who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Stewart of the Penn la line, for the term of one year, 9 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 2 d of May 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 d of Feb y 1819 and sent to the Hon ble Walter Bucher, House of Rep s U.S.
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1818. 4 mos 2/4/30 33. 83 Semi-ann. all ce ending 4 th March 1819 48. 00
Died
June 15, 1824
$81.83
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continue
1878 June 22 Emeline Goldhart informs her 6 th auditor for last pay
Notification sent July 20 1820 to Hon. P. Bucher Lancaster Ohio

Henry Fitz Gerald Pennsylvania line Col. Stewart's reg. '77 1 year 9 months.
Adm.

The State of Ohio Fairfield County ss
On this second day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen before me Elnathan Seaford one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Com- mon Pleas for said County personally appeared Henry Fitzgerald aged Sixty seven years in October last now a resident of Fairfield County aforesaid, who being by me first duly sworn according to Law doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the late act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the revolutionary War. That he the said Henry Fitzgerald enlisted at Hanna's Town in Westmoreland County State of Pennsylvania on the second day of March A D 1777 for one year and nine Months in the company commanded by Captain Joseph Erwin in Colonel Stewarts Regiment of the Pennsylvania line that he continued in the service for one year and ten Months when he was regularly and honorably discharged at the Valley Forge in Pennsylvania - That he was at the battle of Flatbush on Long Island he was taken a prisoner remained sometime in the Sugar house in New York Suffered much for want of Provisions, that after he was exchanged he was at the battle of White Plains, at the taking of the Hessian at Trenton, a few days after was at the taking of a British Regiment near Princeton - That he was at the Battle of Brandywine - and

German town and Sunday after Skirmishes in Scouting parties and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support, and that he has no other evidence now in his possession of his said service, having lost his discharge about twenty years.
I swear to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid
Chatham Seaford Judge Comm Pleas
State of Ohio Fairfield County ss
I Hugh Boyle clerk of the court of common Pleas for the county aforesaid, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing deposition was taken and whose name is thereunto subscribed was at the time of the taking thereof and now is one of the freeholders of the said court, by law- ful authority commissioned and sworn and that to his judicial acts full faith and credit are due & ought to be given -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Lancaster in said county this 14 th day of July A.D. 1818
Hugh Boyle clerk

I Ethan Scofield judge as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Henry Fitzgerald did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration for nine months and upwards, on the continental establishment I further certify that I am personally acquainted with the said Henry Fitzgerald He is in reduced circumstances quite aged and infirm and all most blind I here with transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the secretary for the department of war.
Lamartine Nov. 4 th 1818
Ethan Scofield Judge Com. Pleas

Henry Fillagund
Fairfield Co.
6,515
1 st 3 Feb: 1819.
Mar 1819
Cantonme
Hon: P. Beecher Lancaster, Ohio. 20 July 1820

The State of Ohio } Court of Common Pleas Franklin County ss } for said County
On this twenty first day of June 1820 personally appeared in open court being a court of record agreeable to the constitution of said State Henry Fitzgerald aged seventy years the fifteenth of last October resident of said County who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows (viz) that he entered the service in the company commanded by Capt. Joseph Norris of the State Regiment of Pennsylvania commanded by Col. Walter Stewart that at the time he received his discharge Capt. Shankam commanded said company that as near as he now recollects his first declaration was made in May 1818 and that his pension certificate is dated the third February 1819 and number 6,515 and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner dispose of any property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it to being myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war passed on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts and to my knowledge I have no income other than what is contained in schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed, am year old and that he was when in a situation to follow it by occupation a school teacher that he is quite infirm that for several years he has been so much deprived of his sight that he cannot distinguish one man from another at the distance of five feet that he puts himself wholly incapacitated to procure his subsistence. Henry Fitzgerald Property worth $3.00 as found by the Court mark.

Sworn to and declared in open court this 21 st day of June AD 1820
I Hugh Boyle clerk of the court of common Pleas for said County of Hampshire, do hereby certify that the within Schedule and bills are copied from the original files in the said court. And I further certify that it is the opinion of the court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the within Schedule is Three dollars —
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said court at Lancaster in said County this 21 st day of June AD 1820
Hugh Boyle clerk

Seora Pan, 6. 78 Dear Sir I write you a few lines of inquire wishing to know when my grandfather Henry Fitzgerald drew his last pension. He fought in the Revolutionary War. He lost the sight of both his eyes, in the War. please let me know the year he drew his last pension.
please. Let me know Also if My Father Jerahme Taylor is entitled to a pension His death occurred in the year 1843. September 20 th 1843 He fought in the war of 1812

No more at present please let me know soon
With Respect Mrs Emeline Goldthait
Leora Wabash Co Ind
Pension

VETERANS ADMINISTRATION
WASHINGTON
February 24, 1932
BA-J/KEL
Honorable Hugo L. Black United States Senate Washington, D.C.
My dear Senator:
Reference is made to your letter of February 17, 1932, requesting information in regard to Henry Fitzgerald, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
The data contained herein are obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension, S.43724, based upon the military service of Henry Fitzgerald in that war.
Henry Fitzgerald was born October 15, 1749 or 1750, place not stated.
He enlisted at Hannastown, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, served as a private in Captain Joseph Irwin's and Carnaghan's Companies, Colonel Walter Stewart's Pennsylvania Regiment and was in the battle of Flatbush on Long Island, where he was taken prisoner and held for sometime in the Sugar House in New York; after his exchange he was in the battles of White Plains, Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine and Germantown and in several skirmishes, length of service one year and ten months.
He was allowed pension on his application executed May 2, 1818, while residing in Fairfield County, Ohio.
He died June 15, 1824.
There are no data as to his family.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator.
He said he enlisted Mch 2, 1777, but as he obviously was in NY before that & as I could not connect officers with that date of en- omitted it on Mrs. Fritch's advice.
AB

42724
Rev INVALID.
File No. 42724
Henry Fitzgerald Dr. O. E. Davis
Act: 16 March 18
Index: — Vol. 8 , Page 170
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1982 - Feb 24 - Met. to Rev. Fitzgerald 88h

Br 1812
WILLIAM E. BORAH, IDAHO, CHAIRMAN HIRAM W. JOHNSON, CALIF. CLAUDE A. SWANSON, VA. GEORGE H. MOSES, N. H. KEY PITTMAN, NEV. ARTHUR CAPPER, KANS. JOSEPH T. ROBINSON, ARK. DAVID A. REED, PA. THOMAS J. WALSH, MONT. SIMSON D. FESS, OHIO PAT HARRISON, MISS. ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE, JR., WIS. WALTER F. GEORGE, GA. ARTHUR H. VANDENBERG, MICH. HUGO L. BLACK, ALA. ARTHUR R. ROBINSON, IND. ROBERT F. WAGNER, N. Y. OTIS P. GLENN, ILL. TOM CONNALLY, TEX. BRONSON CUTTING, N. MEX. J. HAMILTON LEWIS, ILL. HENRIK SHIPSTEAD, MINN. CORA RUBY, CLERK
United States Senate
COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
Washington, D.C., Feb. 17, 1932.
Hon. E. W. Morgan, Director, Pension Bureau, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
Will you please give me any information you have, including-
 Place of birth-  Date of birth-  Place of Enlistment-  Residence at time of enlistment-  Date of Beginning of service and expiration thereof-  Details of service,-what regiment, battles participated in, etc. 
of one whose name appears on the Revolutionary Pension Rolls for Ohio, i.e.,
✓  Henry Fitzgerald.  21 Fairfield County, Ohio, Private, Ann. All. $96.00 Sums received $586.54 Service: Penn. Continental Placed on Pension Roll Feb. 3, 1819, Age 73, Died June 18, 1824.
Thanking you for this information, I am
Sincerely yours,
Hugo L. Black HUGO L. BLACK
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